‘i enjoy crises. i just don’t want to create them’

Despite a pre-dawn flight to the UK, Laurens van den Acker, the hugely accomplished Renault Group design director, bounds out of the Rafale with enthusiasm. “This is like Christmas for me,” he beams.

WHAT IS BEING billed as the most decadent motor car ever created is expected to be one of the star cars as Concours of Elegance returns to Hampton Court on 5-7 September. The one-off 1926 Rolls-Royce

BUGATTI HAS BECOME the latest motor manufacturer to offer a ‘bespoke’ programme, allowing wealthy customers to order unique cars for the ultimate in exclusivity. The news came as the company revealed

Despite a pre-dawn flight to the UK, Laurens van den Acker, the hugely accomplished Renault Group design director, bounds out of the Rafale with enthusiasm. “This is like Christmas for me,” he beams.

The classics you love, drive and restore

I WAS A BIT sniffy about the Veyron when it first came out, for all sorts of now seemingly irrational reasons: it looked a bit squashed, a sledgehammer to crack a nut, not a real Bugatti, should have